The Official WBC belt
Interim
International
Diamond
Supreme
Emeritus
Super
Silver
Unified
Gold
I agree they have too many belts but some of those are not real belts. The real belts is: WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO, interim title, NABO, ring magazine e.t.c. Too unify is to win all of the belts in your ( current ) weight class.
The Diamond, Supreme, Emetrius, and Silver are not real belts. A boxer is awarded those titles for hard work. You can not defend them because they are awards.
Some people think they are belts that you can defend because they do not read. Instead they close there eyes and call everything belts. (*:*) // (*:*).
A disgrace! A total utter mess. Boxing was universally more popular up until the late 1980's because even the casual fan could identify the Champions. Things were better when you had just the WBC and WBA World championship titles. (one world championship belt each) The IBF came along in 85 I think, but with the emergence of the WBO in 1988 ( a world title for past it fighters) (At least at first) Things started to go wrong. As if things weren't bad enough with things like the WBF and WBU and such, the WBC has to go and do things like this. It is ridiculous.
Its bad enough that some of their main champs arent recognized as paper belt holders. It seems the only way to get some recognition as a champ is either defending ur belt a dozen times or holding more than one belts or beating the previous recognized champion. here aren the recognized:
Juan Francisco Estrada
Omar Narvaez
Anselmo Moreno
Rigondeaux
Chris John
Miguel Vazquez
Danny Garcia
Floyd Mayweather
Sergio Martinez
Andre Ward
Adonis Stevenson
Wladamir
It's all a load of crap. If you want to know the true champion of each division just see who holds the ring championship belt as it goes to the best fighter in the weight class, easier than trying to figure out what the Hells goin on with all the other organisations.
Paper titles.
Fans know who the true best boxers are. In 09 the best were the 2 p4p kings; Floyd Mayweather & Pacman. Bradley took Pacman status, Floyd remained. There are allot more ''champions'' in welterweight but they only have paper titles.
Boxing politics and business. The alphabet soup organizations are all masters in management by confusion..
It's dumb
For example, take the WBC. They have:
The Official WBC belt
Interim
International
Diamond
Supreme
Emeritus
Super
Silver
Unified
Gold
